A call to restore boundaries so Coventry and Birmingham are once again part of Warwickshire is one of the least signed petitions on the Parliament website.

The petition, set up in August by David Haley, has just 16 signatures, making it 9,984 short of the 10,000 needed for a government response.

And it’s 99,984 short of the 100,000 needed for the issue to be considered for a debate in Parliament.

There are 23,622 petitions listed on Parliament’s petitions website.

Some such as the call for meningitis B vaccination to be widely rolled out get hundreds and thousands of signatures but others, like the one to restore Warwickshire’s boundaries, attract just a handful.

The boundaries were changed in a major reorganisation of local government in 1974.

Coventry and Birmingham were declared separate authorities. Warwickshire also lost Solihull and Sutton Coldfield in the shake up.

But with 16 signatures the petition is doing better than a petition to bring back Robot Wars to the BBC, to stop the abuse of air conditioning and to make a third Inbetweeners movie.

All three of those had less than 10 signatures.

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Coventry City Council’s website also hosts petitions that haven’t attracted much interest.

Among the least signed are a petition against planned cuts to the city’s youth services. That has just seven signatures despite having been online for more than a month.